Integration in Social Networks

Data Integration in Social Networks – A Survey

Data Analysis Methods in Social Networks

Background and Aim. The promising outlook of easy communication incurring minimum cost has caused social networks to face increasing number of active members each day. These members develop and expand international communication through information sharing including personal information. Thus, big data analysis of social networks provides companies, organizations and governments with ample and ...

Integration of Social Concerns in Collaborative Logistics and Transportation Networks

Freight transport optimization, long based solely on an economic approach, happen today through the integration of environmental and/or social concerns, in line with the objectives of sustainable development. In the case of Small and Very Small Enterprises, these objectives cannot be reached individually, and these companies have to join their efforts to find collective solutions. Therefore, th...

Immigrant Networks in New Urban Spaces: Gender and Social Integration

This article investigates how dispersed settlement in areas of urban sprawl affects the structure of personal networks that in turn influences the likelihood of social integration among male and female immigrants from Taiwan. Settlement in the deconcentrated spaces that currently constitute the new urban spaces of U.S. metropolitan areas potentially offers more opportunities to interact with et...

Homophily and long-run integration in social networks

We model network formation when heterogeneous nodes enter sequentially and form connections through both random meetings and network-based search, but with type-dependent biases. We show that there is “long-run integration,” whereby the composition of types in sufficiently old nodes’ neighborhoods approaches the global type distribution, provided that the network-based search is unbiased. Howev...